What is Totally Optional Prompts?

Totally Optional Prompts is a community of people who gather to share poetry. We provide weekly prompts which areTotally Optionalread each other's offerings, and generally have a good time.

Want to participate?

Every Saturday evening, we'll post a prompt here. Then you post a poem on your blog. Then Thursday morning, come back here and find the Thursday post. Leave the PERMALINK (that is, the link to just that post, not the link to your blog itself) in the Linky widget.

Have a poetry collection?

Do you have a poetry collection available? We'll post it here. Email your name, the title of your collection and the URL where people can get it to tielansari AT gmail DOT com. TOP participants only, please.

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This was the first prompt site I ever participated in and I hate to see it end.

But...such is life, I guess.

How do I restart my engine? If it's poetry, I go for a walk or read a poetry book. If it's crafting, I look through magazines to get inspired. If it's anything else, like housework, I break it into short segments with some poetry or crafting in between as a reward.

Other than that, I just wait and trust that things will restart on their own.